http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/paleocons/ en-us Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:29:01 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2427052/posts Picking Apart Washington’s Scumby Paul Gottfried on January 12, 2010 As everyone and his cousin know, the neocons are my least favorite “Washington insiders” and they divide generally into two categories, the ill-mannered, touchy Jews and their groveling or adulatory Christian assistants. David Frum, the Kagan boys, Norman and John Podhoretz, and Michael Ledeen are the house-owners; while Bill Bennett, Fred Barnes, Michael Novak, Cal Thomas, Linda Chavez, and Rich Lowry all live in the servants’ quarters. Although I’ve suffered more at the hands of the Podhoretz-types than from the machinations of their servants, I’ve always felt a grudging admiration... Taki's Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2427052/posts#comment Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:29:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061368/posts Submitted for your amusement, a tale of two columnists, as different as it is humanly possible to be in their view of the Middle East. First, four quotes from the columnist who is second to none in his support for Israel: 1) “Yes, I love the state of Israel. It is everything a Western democracy should be at this point in history: brave, resourceful, tough, realistic, in search of peace but ready for war. It is a King Arthur of nations which is showing the rest of us how a brave and free people ought to live.…” 2) “I have... The Jewish Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061368/posts#comment Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:29:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031501/posts Is there any one shared principle or assumption on which our political consensus rests, any value judgment on which we are all essentially agreed? Apart from abstractions such as a general belief in democracy, one would probably get the widest measure of agreement for the proposition that the second world war was a "good war" and one well worth fighting. And if we possess one indelible image of political immorality and cowardice, it is surely the dismal tap-tap-tap of Neville Chamberlain's umbrella as he turned from signing the Czechs away to Adolf Hitler at Munich. He hoped by this humiliation... NEWSWEEK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031501/posts#comment Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:06:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2003735/posts In recent weeks the thundering Ron Paul freight train has kind of derailed. Even though Paul announced that he was ending his campaign on March 8, his supporters are apparently convinced that he's still a viable candidate, despite his repeated public statements that they should move on and try to do some good working within the GOP. Nonetheless, many of them are pushing for a final surge and a surprise (and entirely delusional) victory at the GOP convention this summer. Admittedly, Paul is still making a lot of speeches and pushing his agenda, so maybe that's contributing to their confusion,... BC Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2003735/posts#comment Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:27:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1949891/posts Ron Paul isn’t just running for president. The antiwar 10-term congressman from Texas hopes that as titular head of the Republican Party, he can nudge the Right in a less interventionist direction, both at home and abroad. In fact, reviving an older, less reflexively hawkish conservatism may even be a more important motivation for Paul’s long-shot campaign than actually capturing the GOP nomination. There’s just one problem: the movement Paul is trying to lead, or at least influence, is filled with people who think he is some kind of crazed left-wing radical. The popular conservative website RedState.com has effectively banned... The American Conservative http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1949891/posts#comment Mon, 7 Jan 2008 23:30:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1943626/posts Pat Buchanan himself may be backing Ron Paul, but some of his former staffers are backing Fred Thompson. Here’s an email sent out by Pat’s Iowa campaign director from the 1996 race: To all my friends, First, I wish you all a very Merry Christmas, but for those of you who live in Iowa, I need not tell you that in little more than a handful of days - the weather permitting - we will make a monumental decision at our Caucuses: who leaves Iowa with the chance to gain their Party’s nomination for President, and all that means to... Say Anything http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1943626/posts#comment Sun, 23 Dec 2007 23:47:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1836934/posts he idea that the party of Eisen-hower or Goldwater would have suspended habeas corpus indefinitely, as Bush has done for “enemy combatants”, would be unthinkable. The idea that they would have tried to occupy and rebuild an entire country in the Middle East is unimaginable. They were ferociously anticommunist, but also wary of direct engagement in foreign countries and deeply suspicious of all wars. This kind of prudence and caution was once the hallmark of the middle of the country and its Midwestern American values. Paul reminded Americans of this past. He told them that the Republicans opposed the second... The Sunday Times (London) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1836934/posts#comment Mon, 21 May 2007 01:19:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1758302/posts "Are there even any real conservatives left in America?" recently asked the one eager for knowledge. "There are," responded the wise man, "but they are often called paleoconservatives." What are paleoconservatives? Well, as Russell Kirk once said, they are the only real conservatives left in America. The whole "conservative movement" has moved so far to the Left, or rather has been "neoconned," that many so-called conservatives are "conservative" in name only. What do paleoconservatives believe? Like mainstream conservatives, paleos are often religious, or at least reverent of religion. They are opposed to secularism, opposed to "gay marriage," opposed to the... News By Us http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1758302/posts#comment Mon, 25 Dec 2006 16:54:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1690822/posts Conservatism 101: A checklist WILLIAM RUSHER In the last couple of decades, the conservative movement has grown so large and subdivided into so many factions, that even discriminating observers can be forgiven for confusing one with another. Just who are these "neoconservatives" who are allegedly so influential in the Bush administration, and how do they differ from ordinary, garden-variety conservatives? Where did the "paleoconservatives" come from? What exactly do they stand for? I offer the following definitions to navigate through the swamps of terminology. Back in the late 1950s, most of the conservative movement could and did meet for lunch... Ocala.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1690822/posts#comment Sun, 27 Aug 2006 14:56:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1689768/posts In the United States, former presidential candidate and journalist, Pat Buchanan is again stirring controversy by trying to give sight to the willfully blind. An open border that allows anyone to come to the United States, he asserts, means the country is headed for self-destruction. Buchanan’s figures are irrefutable: one in 12 illegal immigrants has a criminal record; by 2050 there will be 100 million Hispanics (at current immigration rates) concentrated in the American Southwest, as some radicals plot to undo the results of the Mexican-American War. (Since May 2006, Border Patrol agents have arrested more than 160,000 illegals, more... Lawrence(Kansas) Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1689768/posts#comment Fri, 25 Aug 2006 12:37:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1676226/posts Pat Buchanan's Rampage By Burt Prelutsky Pat Buchanan, not satisfied merely looking like a Herblock depiction of a bigot, a man who never allows an opportunity to slam Israel slip through his fingers, has been on a rampage because Israel has finally gone after the murderous thugs and sadists of Hezbollah. The fact that the terrorists don't wear uniforms means that every time the Israelis kill one of them, Buchanan and his ilk get to insist that Israel is targeting civilians. Buchanan's concern for civilians isn't nearly so evident when it's Jews who are targeted by Hamas, Hezbollah and the... Worldnetdaily.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1676226/posts#comment Wed, 2 Aug 2006 08:07:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1669761/posts Since the outbreak of the Hezbollah-Israeli conflict, Pat Buchanan and other paleoconservatives have made themselves true exponents of populism: the Jew-baiting, conspiracy-driven demagoguery of 1890s agrarians. In two columns, posted at WorldNetDaily this week, Buchanan accused President Bush of being a puppet of nefarious Jewish warmongers. Outlets of the Hate America Right – especially Paul Craig Roberts and LewRockwell.com – have joined him, and then some. Nothing sets Buchanan’s imagination racing like a Bush-backed Israeli war. On Tuesday, Pat asked, “Who is whispering in his ear?” His answer: bloodthirsty Hebrews. That Tel Aviv is maneuvering us to fight its wars... FrontPage Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1669761/posts#comment Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:53:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1655373/posts INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT C-SPAN'S "WASHINGTON JOURNAL" Call from Cher on C-SPAN Sunday, May 28 at approx. 7:20 a.m. ET CHER: HELLO? Host: GOOD MORNING. CHER: NO, THIS IS MALIBU, CALIFORNIA. Host: GO AHEAD. CHER: HI, I HAVE CALLED YOU BEFORE, AND I'M GOING TO TRY TO BE REALLY CALM WHILE I'M TALKING ABOUT THIS, BUT I HAVE TO SAY, THIS REGIME IS -- I'VE BEEN ALIVE FOR 11 PRESIDENTS. I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS IN MY LIFE. I BELONG TO AN ORGANIZATION CALLED OPERATION HELMET. AND THESE PEOPLE. THE SO-CALLED CHRISTIAN REPUBLICANS HAVE SENT THE MEN AND WOMEN OF... C-Span, ProgressiveU http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1655373/posts#comment Sun, 25 Jun 2006 18:39:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1540632/posts The nation that neocons most despise has followed their immigration prescription. American pundits have been crowing about how much better America is at handling minorities and immigrants than is France, which got what it had coming during the weeks of car-burning riots. As in France, where the political class seemed more interested in the riots’ impact on the 2007 presidential election than in stopping the destruction, few talking heads here were inclined to blame the rioting on the rioters. After all, the columnists feel, the North and West Africans setting cars on fire are just a bunch of lowbrow punks,... The American Conservative http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1540632/posts#comment Thu, 15 Dec 2005 01:23:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1499964/posts A Paleocon Plumps for Lynne Stewart Posted by Jacob Laksin @ Monday 10 October 2005, 1:02 pm The convergence of the radical left and the paleo right continues apace. The latest chapter in this unfolding saga is paleocon Paul Craig Robert’s whitewashed defense of radical attorney Lynne Stewart that appears, fittingly enough, in the radical journal Counterpunch.  Stewart, of course, infamously represented one of the architects of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, “Blind Sheikh," Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman.” Roberts, for his part, claims that “Stewart represented her client in ways disapproved by prosecutors.” Please. What Stewart actually did was... Moonbat Central http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1499964/posts#comment Mon, 10 Oct 2005 17:59:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1458765/posts The group named heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar, communications giant Motorola, military contractor United Technologies and electronics manufacturer ITT Industries - all of which supply the Israel Defense Forces . . . The Church also listed international banking conglomerate Citigroup, which was cited in April by The Wall Street Journal for "having moved substantial funds from charities later seen to be fronts funneling money to terrorist organizations," including "funds [which] ended up as payments to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers" . . . The 2.5 million-strong church, the ninth largest in the U.S., represents most U.S. Presbyterians. Haaretz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1458765/posts#comment Sun, 7 Aug 2005 21:26:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/570147/posts I do not post these musings of mine to be disagreeable or provocative, but I simply do not understand the consistent inconsistencies of "palaeo"conservatives. And I am not referring to their position on Communist Arabs vis a vis their position on every other Communist in the world. I am referring to something far more basic. I do not understand someone calling himself a "palaeo"conservative who then invokes "liberty," "rights," etc., for the very simple reason that "palaeo"conservatism connotes a European-style conservatism that opposes these very things in the name of Throne and Altar. So why do our disciples of Joseph ... My own questions http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/570147/posts#comment Tue, 13 Nov 2001 20:10:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1404631/posts Pat Buchanan speaks of American conservatism in the past tense. "The conservative movement has passed into history," says the one-time White House aide, three-time presidential candidate, commentator and magazine publisher. "It doesn't exist anymore as a unifying force," he says in an interview with The Washington Times. "There are still a lot of people who are conservative, but the movement is now broken up, crumbled, dismantled." He is seated in his living room on a sunny afternoon. His wife, Shelley — a member of the Nixon White House staff when he met and married her — is upstairs in their... THE WASHINGTON TIMES http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1404631/posts#comment Tue, 17 May 2005 05:34:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1398551/posts Wal Mart says it imported about $18 billion in goods from China in 2003. The annual sales for that year by Wal Mart was approximately $250 billion dollars. However, when you walk through your local Wal Mart and look on the label of products in the store the majority of products say "Made in China". I went through my local Wal mart the other day and was surprised on what I found. Just about all the Black & Decker and Stanley tools were made in China. GE toasters, microwaves, and vacuum cleaners were all made in China. I looked at... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1398551/posts#comment Sat, 7 May 2005 14:55:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1385713/posts April 25, 2005 Issue Copyright © 2005 The American Conservative Party Crashing A paleo’s-eye view at the Star Trek convention of the American Right By Marcus Epstein After showing the federal security guards my driver’s license, I walked through the metal detector. Beep! Between my suit and overcoat, I must have had over a dozen pockets, and I didn’t feel like figuring out which one held my change, so they scanned my jacket and I walked through again. This time I made it without trouble, but there were still old ladies waiting for security guards to pass wands over them... The American Conservative http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1385713/posts#comment Mon, 18 Apr 2005 03:35:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1302525/posts I first became aware of something deeply askew on the antiwar right shortly after it came into being in the spring of 1999, as an intellectual protest movement against the U.S. war on Serbia. I myself was deeply opposed to the war, seeing President Clinton's initiation of the conflict—on March 24, 1999, one month and twelve days after his acquittal by the U.S. Senate—as utterly lacking in moral or legal justification, and as leading to the ruin of Kosovo. While the Kosovo war is not the subject of this article, a summary of it (or at least of my view... FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1302525/posts#comment Thu, 16 Dec 2004 08:57:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1290074/posts FOREIGN POLICY Time to end the squabble that nearly brought down Bush By Henry R. Nau, a professor at George Washington University, served in the Ford and Reagan administrations and is author of "At Home Abroad: Identity and Power in American Foreign Policy." This article: This is yet another postelection analysis of the partisan forces that nearly toppled a conservative wartime president. Don't worry, though. This one's not about the liberal platoons led by Joe Lockhart, Michael Moore or Janeane Garofalo, but rather the conservative camps whose internecine squabbling threatened the president's victory. In Camp 1, conservative realists, such as... LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1290074/posts#comment Mon, 29 Nov 2004 03:26:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1242691/posts War Gave Us Caesar by Adam Young [Posted October 12, 2004] The stakes are high, the public is divided, and extreme rhetoric is flying. So it always is the month before the presidential election. Why? Because of the power of the office, the very existence of which is contrary to any robust notion of freedom. The President of the United States on his sole decision deploys troops anywhere in the world, blockades and embargoes foreign countries, imposes trade tariffs, and engages in election cycle credit inflation. Around the world, he bombs innocent people, launches invasions and deploys weapons of mass... Ludwig Von Mises Institute http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1242691/posts#comment Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:47:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1241893/posts "A lot of Reagan conservatives are threatening to cut off their noses to spite their faces. They think that because President Bush hasn't done every single thing they want, or has done some things they didn't want, they should punish him by staying home on Election Day or voting for some third party candidate who hasn't got a chance to win in November. It should be obvious to them that they will therefore help elect the Kerry-Edwards team that will do nothing they want and everything they don't. Somehow this idiocy seems to make sense to them -- dump a... The Federalist Patriot http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1241893/posts#comment Mon, 11 Oct 2004 20:18:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1240288/posts The day after George W. Bush is certifiably re-elected (which, please God, will come without a recount, as in 2000), I hope a revolution will occur. Neither Bush (by constitutional fiat) nor Dick Cheney (by reason of health) can run for president. Then there will be a chance to return the GOP to its old stance wisely born of reluctance to commit our military forces to every nook and cranny in the global village. New leadership following a limited foreign policy would prompt party philosophy hewn to the lines advocated by Sen. Robert A. Taft (R-Ohio). That would mean the... The Chicago Sun-Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1240288/posts#comment Sat, 9 Oct 2004 20:57:26 GMT